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"Noren" - Multi Link Bracelet

Medium: Bracelet with integrated magnetic closure as a clasp. Silver & 22K Gold fabricated
Textures are developed by etching, imprinting and hydraulic press forming and casting. Sheets are cut, formed, fitted and soldered into a frame.

4 Piece Mix Necklace

a booth slide.

A Conversation

Medium: Hand built with slabs & coils using white clay. Imagery is drawn onto the sculpture with a pencil and then carved in low relief. After first kiln fire it is stained and china painted. China paints then require multiple kiln firings to achieve rich color.

A HIGHER RISE

Medium: Hand cast with concrete, fibre and metal into a handmade mold. Tonal variations are iron oxide pigments added to the concrete. After curing, the piece is released, then ground and honed. To finish, the piece is sealed and waxed.

Anything Helps

ARCS

Medium: Multiple pieces of monofilament are threaded through holes in a wood background and arranged into a composition. Utilizing light as an interactive element this series attempts to explore the consequences of illumination,and its counterpart, shadow.

Bi-ped'al

Big Blue sky

Medium: Blown glass, several overlays of transparent color create the background. Design components of custom mixed bits and frits are carefully incorporated in the piece during the blowing process to create sky, horizon and ground.

Cosmos Vase Zapp

Medium: Blown glass. Many layers of glass powder interface and swirl around the body of the vase. the design is delineated by a trail of translucent yellow and punctuated with tiny islands of glass frit floating in the sea of color.

Cuff Border Basket with 3 section Plaiting

CUMULUS (four views)

Medium: All 64 milk-painted wood blocks have the ability to rotate 360 degrees in this all-white piece. This allows the viewer the opportunity to create their own compositions and explore shadow+highlight as an affect of environmental changes in ambient light.

Detail of bulbous vases

Deuce

Medium: Earrings made using found automotive steel. Five different vintage cars were used, each retaining the original car paint. Every layer was hand cut, punched, formed, and constructed using cold connections employing several different hand and power tools.

Diamond ring

Dished Slab Coffee Table Detail

Medium: A recessed oval in the slab holds a glass table surface. The natural space of the slab and "our" space of the glass coexist perfectly together, a metaphor for my approach to furniture and life.

Douglas Fir and Redwood

Dracaena Vase

Medium: Hand-thrown vase of white stoneware, with a burnished terra sigillata surface. Vase then blackened by saggar-smoke firing. Then the vase is overlaid, glued and stitched with the natural, unaltered leaf base of the "Dragon Tree", the Dracaena Draco.

Fallen Leaves necklace

FALLING WATER

Medium: A lidded box bearing a sculpture created from debris from Japanese tsunami of 2011. Cast into a custom made mold using iron infused concrete, then ground to a smooth patina, sealed with Tung Oil.

Flower Power Bracelet

Flower Power Necklace

Medium: Hand carved agate flower from found river stone. Formed silver sheet, sunk silver flower center that opens as a small hidden box. Fabricated and forged silver with wire wrap and handmade chain.

Fly Away

Fog Grey Quilted Coat

Medium: This chenille coat is handwoven on a warp of 20 different colors. After the cloth is washed and dried, it is quilted with a silk batting and lining fabric. I "draw" with free motion quilting onto the fabric. I use motifs that suggest the ocean.

Grey Birds 3

GREY SPARKLE (still+motion)

Medium: 2 images of an interactive sculpture-still+in motion. 200 identical cylindrical pieces with white-faced bevels are fixed to a wheel. When spun each element goes through a cycle from white to dark grey+back. The effect is a shifting,sparkling composition.

HAIRIMASU - Enter

Hand-Carved Boxelder Vessel

Medium: Hand-carved Boxelder wood. Carved green from a single block. Underside features carved feet and a contrasting black dye. I carve from the bark down, meaning the underside was the inside of the log.

Heading South

Heartland

Helix

Medium: 100% Merino Wool-Blk/Wht. Each pattern piece is individually cut and embroidered free hand then trimmed to join to the next piece. Process continues until all are joined and trimmed to meet specs of original overall pattern. Center fronts MUST match!

Hooded Lalo Cloak

Medium: My design process is an intuitive juxtaposition of vintage and reclaimed fabrics. The challenge of designing within these restraints really pushes the creative process and supports my personal philosophy of sustainable and ethical practices.

Hooded Lalo Cloak

Medium: My design process is an intuitive juxtaposition of vintage and reclaimed fabrics. The challenge of designing within these restraints really pushes the creative process and supports my personal philosophy of sustainable and ethical practices.

Knowing

Lalo Zippered Cloak

Medium: My design process is an intuitive juxtaposition of vintage and reclaimed fabrics. The challenge of designing within these restraints really pushes the creative process and supports my personal philosophy of sustainable and ethical practices.

Lalo Zippered Cloak

Medium: My design process is an intuitive juxtaposition of vintage and reclaimed fabrics. The challenge of designing within these restraints really pushes the creative process and supports my personal philosophy of sustainable and ethical practices.

Lotus

Made In USA

Medium: This silver gelatin diptych consists of two images, both printed in a conventional darkroom from the original black and white negative. Archival materials are used for this limited edition of 6.

Mile Marker 523

Medium: Photograph printed over gold acrylic paint on powder coated steel. The transparent quality of the photograph allows the luminosity and texture of the paint and steel to shine through. Editions of 1

poodle on beach tile

PORCELAIN BOTTLES

Medium: A collection of architectural porcelain vessels - each hand-thrown and altered. These minimal, abstract forms take on figurative characteristics and lend themselves to exploring gesture, expression, and the relationship that exists between them.

Quantum Sun - 7 Layer Papercut

Medium: This is a seven layer papercutting with each layer a different color. Using both Canson Mi Tientes papers and one Da Vinci handmade paper I've created an image influenced by the idea of Quantum Suns--or multi-worlds.

Quilted, woven jacket

Medium: This chenille jacket is an original design using handwoven cloth which is then quilted with a free motion design. Jacket is shown with a handwoven scarf called "Milan" and is woven with cotton, bamboo, Tencel and silk.

Radioactive

Medium: Bracelet made from found automotive steel. Four different vintage cars were used, each with the original car paint left intact. Every layer was hand cut, punched, formed,& constructed using cold connections employing several different hand and power tools

Small Affordable Prints

Medium: I like to provide affordable fine art prints for collectors as a compliment to my large format pieces. There are more than 20 limited editions to choose from in ClearBags the public can flip through in folder holders. Prices vary from $25-$60

Sunrise Pendant

Suspension

Medium: Cuff bracelet created using a 1960 Rambler and a 1967 Ford Falcon, both with the original car paint left intact. Each strip was hand cut, formed, and constructed using cold connections employing several different hand and power tools.

teapot

Technicolor Waffle

Medium: This geometric abstract piece is created from the construction and assembly of 675 boxes. The three dimensional boxes, some embedded within others, are made from seven different handmade papers.

The Beauty Is In The Seed

The Fundamental Four

Medium: This geometric abstract piece is created from the construction and assembly of 563 square and rectangular boxes, some embedded within others. The eleven sizes of three-dimensional boxes are made from eight (8) different papers.

THE JOURNEY IS FREE..!!

The Manzanita Coat

Medium: Handwoven coat woven with chenille on a mixed warp of 20 colors. This coat tells an Oregon story with its colors: Seal Brown, Kelp gold, Blackberry and Salal. The border is pieced and edged and is inspired by the wetland areas of the Oregon Coast.

Tin Town

Medium: Globe (with continents cut out) rotates on its stand. Little doors and windows hinge open. The piece is constructed of found tin. Little bits of tin are cut and soldered together. The stand has a wood armature (with weights in the bottom).

Urban Mojo Cuff Bracelet

USHI USHIGAWA - Insides Out

Medium: A functional sculpture which has been cast as well as laid up over a steel armature. A combination of steel and iron grids gives the skeletal portion of the sculpture a formidable weight that both competes with and compliments the mass of the concrete.

vegetable ivory ring

Vented Nostaglia

Medium: A 1941 International Pickup, a 1975 Dodge Forest Service Truck, and hood vents of a 70's Dodge were used to create this neck piece. All original car paint is left intact. Each piece was hand cut and formed employing several different hand and power tools.

Vestige of an Oak

Medium: Lathe turned and hollowed oak. Carved, burned to soften the edges and expose the grain, brushed to remove the soot, dyed with india ink to provide depth and painted with many layers of fluid acrylic paint.